"Twins" Sequel in the Works with Schwarzenegger, DeVito and Eddie Murphy

Danny DeVito has wanted to make a "Twins" sequel ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he'll go back to acting after his term as California Governor comes to an end. Now comes word that the sequel may actually become reality.

Universal Pictures is developing the new film, called "Triples," that would reunite DeVito and Schwarzenegger as brothers who were conceived experimentally. This time, however, they learn that they have a third brother, to be played by Eddie Murphy.

Ivan Reitman, who helmed the original film, is already on board as a producer. All three actors are already officially attached. The search for a director begins.

This movie is going to bomb hard at the box office. Why? Eddie Murphy is box office poison. Any movie, with him especially as the lead role, that has come out within the last 10-15 yeas has bombed at the box office. I don't think I've enjoyed Eddie Murphy in a movie since the "Beverely Hills Cop" series.

A sequel to a movie that came out 25 years ago? I will admit, I enjoyed the first movie. It was good ol' 80's nostalgia for me but please leave it alone.

Arnie and Devito maybe old but they can hold their own... well with support of a walker or wheelchair. Eddie Murphy on the other hand... just needs to quit acting.

TT: RAW was average? Coming to America and the first Nutty Professor (and even Boomerang to a certain extent) were pretty good too. And Eddie made a killing with the Shrek films, in which he was arguably the best character. Don't get me wrong, Eddie hasn't been Trading Places funny for years and he's made plenty of total sh*t. But the guy doesn't always strike out.

PS, checkout Dreamgirls and Tower Heist for more recent decent Eddie material. He actually was nominated for some serious awards for Dreamgirls, and in Tower Heist he showed some flashes of his former greatness. Eddie just needs to get back to the R rated material and I think he'll be fine. I could be wrong though :)

BTW speaking of sequels and prequels which we all seem to hate at this site here's an interesting article on the difference between original films in 1981 and today http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/01/05/has-hollywood-lost-its-way/

Nice link there mate, Making money sure seems the main reason these sequels get greenlit over say a more original idea nower days.

1981 sure looks like the most interesting year out of those 4 to me.

And I don't mind sequels, Not just the usual great sequels like Godfather 2 or Empire Strikes Back, A popcorn summer movie sequel like Lethal Weapon 2, T2, Aliens, The Indy films, The Die Hard movies.

But some of those movies from last year were pretty darn bad, Cars 2, Pirates 4 (Rise of the apes was a good movie BTW)

All they were thinking about was the final dollar not a thought was given to story or any sort of character development.

They know people love these characters and no matter the strength of the film people will pay to see it, i mean Tranformers 3 and Pirates 4 are in the top 10 most sucessful films EVER !! WTF is that about !!

Even when they do have half new idea like John Carter (sorry 1st one i could think of) they spend too much money on it, totally mess up the marketing and they end up wasting a ton of money on it instead.

So what will we get next ?? Pirates 5, Twilight The Beginning and Cars 3 most likely so they can try and earn that money back again.

@TT: Agreed. Eddie is a victim of his own early success. His career started with a huge bang. His success led to him signing the biggest contract in film history, but that led him to be Disney's slave for over 10 years. Eddie is out of that contract now so he should get back to what made him a star. That is if he can remember.

@Bullit: Ahhh the Shrek film were huge at the BO, so I'm gonna have to call bullsh*t on your statement. They are arguably Eddie's most successful films.

Excellent point CINEMA,call it deterioration,erosion or just or just not 'hungry' but one would think he would sort of have that hungry look from making all these crap movies at least people still see a Sandler movie,his movies have always been badly reviewed.Murphy has kids,paternity suits,alimony piss poor movies,these shouldve awoken something in him by now.
On the other hand he gets his $$ no matter what.
His creativity is shot,he doesnt care about his product,legacy therefore his fans...
f*ckUCHUCK imean MURPHY!

"This time, however, they learn that they have a third brother, to be played by Eddie Murphy."

Uh huh. The only ways you can be someone's brother is either a) being genetically related to them, or b) being genetically unrelated to them but growing up in the same household, as Jennifer Carpenter's character with respect to to Dexter.

The first one doesn't work because they don't know Murphy's character even exists. The second one doesn't work because there's no f*cking way someone as black as Murphy shares even 25% heritage with someone as white as Arnold and Danny.

And Murphy is box office death, Arnold, who hasn't done d*ck in a very long time, is far too old to make anyone but a proctologist laugh, and Danny, well, he's Danny Devito, a short rotund man with a good but ancient forgotten run playing off actual A-listers, and neither Murphy or Arnold are currently top bracket performers.

Good luck with this sh*t, Universal, and your Back to the Future reboot...

i was thinking of seeing eddies latest movie out "A thousand words" But then i asked myself.. "Are you crazy?" then i smacked myself and saw a good movie, that plot sounds so stupid.. i think his last good movie was Daddy day care..